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links to things that you will like

jessamyn — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:36:19 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntie/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

A few open tabs that I think may interest librarian.net readers.

Ask MetaFilter: Proposing to a book lover. Ideas?
Books mentioned in other books, a nifty article in the NYTimes
Unusual Books and Book Sculptures (including the one above)
Maine is looking for a new State Librarian

(mostly) fully clothed women reading

jessamyn — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:19:48 +0000

Lezende Vrouwen in de Kunst (women reading, in artworks). The site is in Dutch but you can just click across the century links up top. From the always excellent BibliOdyssey.

today’s DDC art link

jessamyn — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:19:23 +0000

“Forgotten Futures is a data sculpture which visualizes 100 years of forward thought. Using web-crawls of Google News, Google Blog and Google Scholar, the phrase “in the future” was associated with key words and phrases which reveal previous though about the future of our world. The top 100 terms for each year were categorized using the Dewey Decimal system, and mapped onto a grid. Holes were drilled into sheets of plexiglass whose sizes correspond to their frequency. For example, “war” is the biggest hole in 1945. The prototype shown here is a sketch for a larger installation.” [via info aesthetics, via sudama]

a new kind of book blog

jessamyn — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:53:43 +0000

Barbara Yates makes lovely books out of wood and other recycled materials. My favorite one post blog ever. [thanks peacay]

negative space

jessamyn — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:49:34 +0000

Do you see what I see here?

information visualization aesthetics @ Seattle Public Library

jessamyn — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:01:59 +0000

The article begins “From now on, whatever you check out of the Seattle Central Library will play in color-coded streams across six big plasma screens on the library’s fifth floor.” but don’t freak out, that’s actually not what happens. Read more about the new art installation in the Seattle Public Library’s main branch. Of the three other major artworks in the library, two aren’t working currently, they need new projectors. [thanks matthew]

fall in love with classification all over again

jessamyn — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:54:50 +0000

The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects, by artist Brian Collier [amanda]

radio book, book radio

jessamyn — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:01:20 +0000

When you look at the creative bleeding edge things people are doing with user interface design you have to wonder why we can’t hire someone like this to design our OPACs. [thanks adam]

Our final concept, the “book radio,” takes the mental model of a physical book where user can browse by flipping pages, read by keeping a page open, and create a reminder of a specific page by placing a bookmark.

Each page of the “book radio” represents a frequency. The user flips pages to scan the frequency spectrum; opens to a specific page to listen to a station; places the bookmark on a desired page to listen and store the station; and slides the bookmark up or down to control the volume. In addition, the “book radio” inherits other qualities of a book. The user can scribble in it, place stickers or take notes while listening.

The National Library of Cabinet Magazine

jessamyn — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:00:28 +0000

Desert Project: Cabinet National Library. Trust me, you’ll enjoy it. Here’s a link where you can read a little more about it. [thanks iboy]

House of Books

jessamyn — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:56:16 +0000

Just what the title says. If I can’t find my dream live-in library, I could try something like this. [lj]

what to do with old library cards

jessamyn — Mon, 02 May 2005 17:15:43 +0000

Catalog card post cards, by Amanda. Lovely.

edible book, yum!

jessamyn — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:37:28 +0000

I encourage all librarians to try to get involved in their local Edible Books Festival, coming up soon at the tail end of National Library Week.

tattooed librarians, and others, a book on skin

jessamyn — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:47:41 +0000

The Ineradicable Stain seems like a great art project for a librarian to be involved in.

Each participant must agree to have one word of the story tattooed upon his or her body. The text will be published nowhere else, and the author will not permit it to be summarized, quoted, described, set to music, or adapted for film, theater, television or any other medium. The full text will be known only to participants, who may, but need not choose to establish communication with one another.

book arts

jessamyn — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:30:41 +0000

Fore-edge painted books, links galore. How can you look these up in an OPAC?